# mcp-audit-trail

> Lightweight observability for MCP agent interactions — capture every tool call, generate visual audit trails.

Record `mcp-audit-trail` (mcp_server) · JSON: https://wellknown.network/agents/mcp-audit-trail/record.json · HTML: https://wellknown.network/agents/mcp-audit-trail
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## Observed
- status: unknown
- reason: Distributed as a package to run locally; no network endpoint to check.
- 30-day reliability: no checks yet

## Verification
- owner verified: no — claim at https://wellknown.network/agents/mcp-audit-trail/claim

## Declared
- publisher: Khushi Dahiya
- homepage: https://github.com/khushidahi/mcp-audit-trail
- repository: https://github.com/khushidahi/mcp-audit-trail
- version: 0.1.1
- protocols: mcp
- tags: agents, audit, llm, mcp, model-context-protocol, observability
- endpoints:
  - package_pypi: pypi:mcp-audit-trail

### Description (declared)

# mcp-audit-trail

Your MCP agent just called 14 tools, accessed employee records, and submitted a PTO request. Do you know what actually happened?

This library sits between any MCP client and server as a transparent proxy, logs every JSON-RPC message, and spits out an HTML report you can actually read. Zero changes to your server code. Zero runtime dependencies.

![status](https://img.shields.io/badge/status-alpha-orange)
![python](https://img.shields.io/badge/python-3.10%2B-blue)
![license](https://img.shields.io/badge/license-MIT-green)

<p align="center">
  <img src="https://raw.githubusercontent.com/khushidahi/mcp-audit-trail/main/docs/images/full-report.png" alt="MCP Audit Trail report" width="700">
</p>

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## The problem

[MCP](https://modelcontextprotocol.io/) gives agents the ability to call tools, query databases, and take real actions. That's great until you need to answer questions like:

- What data did the agent actually read?
- Did it access anything it shouldn't have?
- Which tool call failed, and what arguments did it pass?
- Who approved that PTO request — a human or the model?

Application logs won't tell you this. You need something that understands the MCP protocol itself.

## Install

```bash
pip install mcp-audit-trail
```

No runtime dependencies. Seriously — the core library is pure Python stdlib. You only need the `mcp` SDK if you want to run the included demo server.

## Quickstart

### 1. Proxy your server (nothing to change)

Stick the proxy between your client and server. Both sides think they're talking to each other directly.

```bash
mcp-audit-proxy \
  --server "python my_server.py" \
  --log audit.json \
  --sensitive-tools get_pay_info get_ssn \
  --write-tools submit_time_off delete_record
```

That's it. Every message flows through, gets logged to `audit.json`, and lands on the other side untouched.

### 2. Turn the log into something readable

```bash
mcp-audit-report --input audit.json --output report.html
```

Open `repo…

## Capabilities (derived by Wellknown)
- dev.monitoring (1, declared)
- data.database (0.791, derived)

## Provenance
- pypi: https://pypi.org/project/mcp-audit-trail/ (first seen 2026-09-10T00:23:47.834Z)

Machine surfaces: status https://wellknown.network/api/v1/agents/mcp-audit-trail/status · API https://wellknown.network/api/v1/agents/mcp-audit-trail · ARD identifier urn:air::server:mcp-audit-trail